Saturday, August 31, 2013

I am so excited to be participating in this cover reveal for Jenna. I absolutely love and adore her and her books just ROCK! So when she asked if I would participate I of course jumped at the chance. But before I show you the reveal let's get to know more about Jenna.

From as far back as I can remember I always had a story to tell. Whether it was creating a world for my dolls, or running through the woods trying to escape the unseen forces that were after me. As I got older, I carried a notebook around with me and wrote about the life I wished I had been living. It was my escape. Even then, I didn't realize it was something I could actually put together on my own.

In high school, I discovered writers such as Dean Koontz, Nora Robert, and many more amazing authors. I would get lost in those books. The drama, the suspense, the romance, the terror, it was thrilling. I wanted to tell stories just like that. Unfortunately, life happens. Families begin, and those dreams sometimes get pushed aside while new ones arise.

It wasn't until a few years ago, another writer told me the story of how she sat in her mini-van while at her child's sports practice with a notebook, and she wrote an entire novel that became an instant bestseller. She told me it was the most thrilling thing she'd ever done, and that it was never too late to live out a dream.

I went home, set up my laptop, sat down, and wrote my first novel "The Long Road Home." I was dealing with a lot of emotions after a family tragedy and that one novel, released me from all the pain I was feeling. When I was through, the feeling of seeing my words in the palm of my hand was unlike any feeling I had ever experienced. I haven't stopped writing since. I am a storyteller. I want to create a world that will touch your heart the way mine has been touched.

Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that matter the most.
Emma is a small town girl with big dreams. After years of working hard, she thought she finally had it all: a beach house in Malibu, a fiancé who is a well-known surgeon, and a climbing career in the newspaper world. Except, when Emma finds Matt in bed with another woman only weeks before their wedding, she takes a giant leap by accepting a promotion on the east coast.
While in her travels across the country, Emma crosses paths with the free-spirited, fly by the seat of his pants, Jacob. She's fascinated by him and his outlook on life.
When circumstances leave her stranded in a strange city, fate brings Jacob and Emma together again. He takes her on a two day journey into his world where he shows her that money doesn’t always buy you happiness. Happiness is there for the taking, all Emma needed to do was know where to look.
So, when Matt rides in to the rescue, Emma must decide if her relationship with him is worth saving, or if her chance encounter with Jacob is her tomorrow.

Cover by Regina Wamba
Coming this Fall

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WOW! That cover is GORGEOUS! I can't wait to read this book. Thank you Jenna for letting me participate in this Cover Reveal.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Today on my blog I have the Book Blast for After Alex Died. I love the cover and can't wait to read the book.

“Don’t be someone who defines her life by someone else’s death.”

Dee Dee DeMarco’s brother, Alex, was funny, free-spirited and creative. He was also gay. Tormented by bullies, Alex killed himself on his 15th birthday.

Two years later, and now in college, Dee Dee believes getting a summer job working with a college-prep program for disadvantaged high school students is a stroke of luck, until she discovers that the guy assigned to co-lead her group is Cameron Connelly, a star basketball player and one of the bullies who tormented her brother to death. How can Dee Dee possibly spend the entire summer working so closely with one of the boys she blames for her brother’s death?

Dakota Madison has been writing since she learned to read and fell in love with books. When she’s not at her computer creating spicy new romances, Dakota is traveling to exotic locales or spending time with her husband and their bloodhounds.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would like to Thank Book Nerd Tours for letting me participate in this blast. Don't forget to enter the giveaway.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

I am so excited to be participating in the Cover Release for Airicka's new book Betraying Innocence. But first let's get to know more about Airicka.

Airicka
Phoenix is the best-selling author of The Touch Saga, Games of Fire, Octavian's
Undoing & The Lost Girl Series with short stories in Whispered Beginnings:
A Clever Fiction Anthology and Midnight Surrender Anthology. She also writes
adult paranormal & contemporary romance under her alter ego, Morgana Phoenix.

Roseanna
- Ana - French was happy with her life. Sure she had to move to a strange new
town and live in a creepy new house that had inexplicable cold spots, but she
could live with that. What she couldn’t deal with was the relentless tapping
inside the walls at night, the sinister shadows in the halls or the spirit crawling
its way beneath her skin.

Full Cover Wrap:

Wow! Isn't that cover gorgeous? I can't wait to read it. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to Thank Airicka for letting me participate in her reveal.

Monday, August 26, 2013

I am so excited to be participating in this Cover Reveal for book 4 Cursed in The Brookehaven Vampires series by Joann Martin Sowles. This is one of my favorite series and I have been wanting to read this book since I finished book 3 last year. But before we see the cover let's get to know more about Joann first.

Joann I. Martin Sowles is the self-published author of The Brookehaven Vampires series. She prefers fantasy to reality, and anything purple. She could spend hours talking to anyone who would listen about her favorite books, movies, and TV shows. She loves to read and is a devoted Mickey Mouse fan. When she’s not consumed by her writing, Joann is busy homeschooling her kids or hiding from housework.

Leaving it all behind, Laney and Oliver are looking forward
to getting away from the troubles of “Treeville,” and finally beginning their
forever. Unfortunately, Laney’s guardian angel and Oliver’s twin have other
plans in mind.

Even so, after a wonderful, yet also terrifying few days
together, Laney and Oliver are off to the capital where they will partake in
Levi’s plans of persuading his love to join his world. Although enjoyable, and
rather entertaining, Laney and Oliver must soon return home where anything can
and will go wrong.

As if a psychotic angel and a crazy twin brother were not
enough, Laney and her friends come to find that their previous troubles with
witches, werewolves, and the Weslin siblings were nothing compared to what is
coming.

With many secrets into her life revealed, Laney must find it
within herself to hold it together and make the right choices to help save the
ones she loves.

With everyone’s
futures hanging in the balance, will Laney and her friends be able to put a
stop to a chain of events that could tear their world apart?

YA/NA, Paranormal Romance. 18+ *Mature Content Warning*

Full Cover Wrap:

WOW! That cover is GORGEOUS!! I can't wait to read this book. Is it November yet? LOL!!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to Thank Joann for letting me participate in this cover reveal.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Today on my blog I have the Dirty 30 Blog Tour. On my stop there is a spotlight, reviews, and awesome giveaway for a kindle! Wish I could enter. So let's get started and meet R.M.

R.M. Gilmore is a paranormal and mystery/suspense writer and creator of the irreverent Dylan Hart Odyssey of the Occult series and the groundbreaking Lynnie Russell Trilogy. Both of which were voted top reads of 2012, as well as, bestselling in Irish Mythology, Female Sleuths and Occult genre. A member of Sisters in Crime and devoted Indie author supporter, R.M. uses her time when she is not writing to promote and assist her fellow authors.

R.M. resides in California with her family and a ton of pets. Choosing to behave 'outside the box' R.M. prefers to think and live freely without the constraints of social stigma in life and in writing. That being said, she truly is not your mother's author.

Irreverent twenty-something, Dylan Hart, has her little black heart set to cash-in on the blood-drained bodies of seven prostitutes scattered throughout southern California.In search of the culprit of the media-dubbed Vampire Massacres, journalist Dylan Hart dives head first into L.A.’s sanguinary ‘vampire’ subculture, in an attempt to write her first best-selling novel and pay off her ever growing student debt. Dylan drinks whiskey, smokes like a chimney, and possesses a mouth she wouldn’t kiss her mama with and with the aid of her statuesque hetero-life-mate Tatum Price, Dylan takes the case head-on, slicing her way through the absurd, the ethereal and the deadly serious, of the underground ‘vampire’ community. But lies and skepticism keep Dylan from the facts hidden within fiction and the danger lurking right under her nose. It’s all shits and giggles until a dead body pops up at your back door.

Review:

I was drawn to this by the cover from one line “They’re not your daughter’s vampires” that alone had me picking this book up and staying up late into the night to finish it even though I kept telling myself just one more chapter then I am going to bed. Well that one more chapter lead me to finish the book in one sitting and I am so glad I did.

We start off meeting Dylan Hart who I just love. She is a reporter who wants to write a book centered on the vampire killings in Los Angeles. She sets off to the latest crime scene where she can talk to the lead detective Mike who she has a strange relationship with but is explained later on in the book. Getting nowhere with the cops she goes to a Goth bar to interview what she believes are kids playing at being vampires. She is annoyed with the first kid she interviews so she calls her best friend Tatum to go to a different bar. While at this bar they meet Cyrus who is not what he seems to be. He takes Dylan and Tatum to yet another exclusive member’s only club where things start turning weird for Dylan after her drink is drugged and she can’t remember anything from the nights but bits and pieces. Dylan is furious when she wakes up and demands Cyrus tell her everything but that proves a little difficult when he can’t remember either. So he sets up a meeting with his boss Malcolm. After this meeting things start to get crazy for Dylan and the book she is trying to write turns into her fighting for her life. Dylan is forced into re thinking everything she thought and trying to figure who she can trust.

I loved this book so much. Dylan is one of my favorite characters I have ever read. We are a lot a like in our personalities. She is funny, sarcastic, and smart mouthed. I kept finding myself laughing out loud while reading the things she was saying. Her relationship with her best friend Tatum is a lot like most of us have. Cyrus is sexy and mysterious. He’s the kind of guy you can’t figure out if he’s the villain or hero and right along with Dylan being confused about him so was I. It wasn’t until close to the end of the book that I stared figuring things out.

If you want a book filled with characters you can love and feel like you know, murder, betrayal, vampires, have you laughing out loud, and leave you guessing at every turn then I highly recommend The Scene by R.M. Gilmore. 5/5 Bloody Fangs

The bitch is back in this second installment of the Dylan Hart Odyssey of the Occult series. The irreverent Dylan Hart, once again, graces us with her presence, this time from down in New Orleans. She has drug along her band of misfit vampires, but this time blood drinkers are the least of her worries. Dylan finds herself entangled in the underground world of blood and lust when she encounters a new, and much more frightening, villain. Voodoo. Who do?

Review:

R.M. has surpassed herself with the second book of the Dylan
Hart series. Book two is funnier, sexier, edgier, and side splitting laughing
out loud to the point of having people look at you like you have lost your ever
loving mind and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Dylan finds herself in New
Orleans on a new adventure that will have her belief
system spinning yet again. Pushing her relationships to the max, making new
enemies, and getting hot and heavy but with whom, well you will have to read
the book to find that part out for yourself.

So I already had a girl crush on Dylan from book one The
Scene and this book made me love her even more. She is by far my favorite
female character and I already want book three so I can read more of Dylan.
There isn’t a minute of this book that didn’t have me completely engrossed in
the story line. It is fast paced and had me on the edge of my seat with my
heart pounding or had me laughing out loud to the point people are staring at
me.

If you want a series with a kick ass heroine who has the
biggest potty mouth, that has a great mix of humor, action, sex, than check out
Dylan Hart by R.M. Gilmore. 5/5 Bloody Fangs

Dylan has found herself in quite the conundrum...oh shit, who are we kidding?

She's ass deep in death and it's knocking down her door. Literally.

Endless Night left you with your heart pounding and your stomach in your butt...book three will flip you upside down and take you on a ride that'll leave your knees quivering and your head lying on the floor...literally.

"I'm Sharlene Carolynn Diamond Russell, but most folks around Havana call me Lynnie. I want to tell you about the day a chance encounter changed my life forever. From a few sweet smooches to gut churning transformations, this is the story of the events that led to my Becoming."

Country girl paranormal novella from author R.M. Gilmore (author of the Dylan Hart Odyssey of The Occult series). A new twist on an old classic. Havana, Arkansas isn't exactly the picture of mystics and magic, but Lynnie Russell learns quickly you can't judge a book by it's cover. She discovers myths and legends are alive and well in her tiny little town and she is at the center of it.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Today on my blog I have the Flicker & Burn tour. On my stop there is a spotlight, tens list, review, and giveaway.

T.M. Goeglein began his career as a
writer of print and television ads for a host of advertising and media
companies. As a screenwriter, he created both original scripts and worked as a
script doctor for several production companies in Los Angeles. He was an
original contributor to the Huffington Post 'Living' section, and continues to
write for both the national edition and Huffington Post Chicago.Read T.M.
Goeglein's stories on the Huffington Post.

His debut young adult novel,COLD FURY, will be
published by Penguin/Putnam in 2012 and is the first in a trilogy; he’s
currently working on the second book. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Laura,
and two young children.

Sara Jane Rispoli is still searching for her missing family, but instead
of fighting off a turncoat uncle and crooked cops, this time she finds herself
on the run from creepy beings with red, pulsing eyes and pale white
skin chasing her through the streets in ice cream trucks; they can
only be described as Ice Cream Creatures.
They're terrifying and hell bent on killing her, but
they're also a link to her family, a clue to where they might be and who
has them.

While she battles these new pursuers, she's also discovering more about
her own cold fury and more about the Chicago Outfit, how the past
misdeeds--old murders and vendettas--might just be connected to her
present and the disappearance of her family. But connecting the dots is tough
and time-consuming and may finally be the undoing of her relationship with the
handsome Max--who's now her boyfriend. But for his own safety, Sara Jane may
have to end this relationship before it even really starts.

Her pursuers who've shown her her mother's amputated finger and the
head of the Chicago Outfit who's just whistled her in for a sit-down make a
romance unthinkable. The only thing that matters is finding her family and
keeping everyone she loves alive.

Review:

I am hooked on this series. I loved it from page one all the
way to the last page and I still want more of this world that T.M. has created.

Sarah is still trying to find her kidnapped family. Add to
that she has pale faced red eyed creatures chasing after her in ice cream
trucks no less. Oh and she has to start her junior of high school like nothing
is going on all the while she gets deeper in the Chicago Mob scene and finding
more information on her cold fury. Will she able to find her family in time
before the mob closes in on her and stay away from the ice cream creatures?
You’ll have to read Flicker & Burn to find out since I don’t do spoilers.

Sarah is defiantly become one of my favorite characters this
year. She is so strong and I can’t even imagine going through everything she is
at the age of sixteen. From running from red eye creatures, trying to find her family,
and keep up the family business of being the mediator for the disputes between
the muscle and the money I couldn’t do it. I can not wait for the next book to
see what happens in this action packed, amazing page turning book. 4/5 Bloody
Fangs

Doug Stuffins, Sara Jane’s best friend.
He’s tough and funny, and loves movies. Random fact: Doug is scared to admit
he’s gay, not because of what people will think about him, but because he’s not
sure how it makes him feel about himself.

Gina Pettagola, Sara Jane’s super-gossipy
semi-friend. Random fact: Gina had a nose job along with her sister, and
you’d better not tell anyone!

Max Kissberg, Sara Jane’s boyfriend (sort
of.) He’s patient with Sara Jane, even though she’s obviously withholding
facts about her life. Random fact: Max is old school, a guy who knows how to
take apart and fix his vintage Triumph motorcycle.

Elzy, Sara Jane’s nemesis. She’s
desperately trying to get her hands on Sara Jane and the old notebook. Random
fact: Elzy loves Frank Sinatra more than anyone in the world…except her
brother, Poor Kevin.

Lou Rispoli, Sara Jane’s younger brother.
He disappeared along with their mom and dad. Random fact: Lou rescued a small,
Italian greyhound, Harry, from the pound; in turn, Harry becomes a partner to
Sara Jane in trying to rescue her family.

Teardrop, an Ice Cream Creature. It’s
unclear whether Teardrop is a guy or girl, but obvious that it wants to do harm
to Sara Jane. Random fact: Teardrop’s memory has been wiped clean by the
insidious drug, Sec-C.

Heather Richards, Sara Jane’s long-lost
cousin. She’s gorgeous and popular but increasingly suspicious of Sara
Jane’s secretive nature. Random fact: she was the original ‘Becky’ on the TV
show Two Cool for School.

Sara Jane Rispoli, the heroine of the COLD
FURY trilogy, including book II, FLICKER & BURN. Sara Jane is committed
to finding and saving her family, no matter what she has to do or whom she has
to hurt to do it. Random fact: she started boxing at age six because ballet was
boring, boring, boring.

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Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to Thank T.M. for letting me review his book and Book Nerd Tours for letting me participate in this tour. Don't forget to enter the giveaway.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Today on my blog I have the Charmed Vengeance tour. On my stop there is a spotlight and giveaway.

Suzanne Lazear is the author of the Young
Adult Steampunk dark fairytale series THE AETHER CHRONICLES. Book 1, INNOCENT
DARKNESS is out now. Book 2, CHARMED VENGEANCE, releases 8-8-13. She always
plays with swords, is never described as normal, and has been known to run with
bustles. Suzanne lives in Los Angeles with her daughter and the hubby,and a
hermit crab. Learn more about THE AETHER CHRONICLES athttp://www.aetherchronicles.comand her at http://www.suzannelazear.com

In the Faerie realm, Noli Braddock's relationship with her best friend V
has grown into something more. But V's mother, Faerie Queen Tiana, has ruled
that they are forbidden to see each other. Returning to the mortal realm, Noli
joins the crew of her brother's air-pirate ship, the Vixen's Revenge. There she
discovers that her brother has hired the scallywag Faerie huntsman, Kevighn
Silver. While serving as shipmates, Kevighn and Noli learn that the Earth Court
King plans to find a forbidden artifact--one that will bring destruction to
everyone Noli loves.

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I am so excited to be participating in the Cover Reveal of Then, Now, Forever book 2 in the Heartbeat series. I loved book book 1 so much and I can't wait for this book to release. But before I show you the cover let's meet the author and learn more about book 1 In a Heartbeat.

Hi, my name is
Teodora and I live in London with my husband Ted and my son Jason. I've been
writing ever since I can remember, but it became my full time job in 2010 when
I decided that everything else I've tried bores me to death and I have to do
what I've always wanted to do, but never had to guts to fully embrace. I've
been a journalist, an editor, a personal assistant and an interior designer
among other things, but as soon as the novelty of the new, exciting job wears
off, I always go back to writing. Being twitchy, impatient, loud and hasty are
not qualities that help a writer, because I have to sit alone, preferably
still, and write for most of the day, but I absolutely love it. It's the only
time that I'm truly at peace and the only thing I can do for more than ten
minutes at a time - my son has a bigger attention span than me.

When I'm procrastinating, I like to go to the gym, cook Italian meals (and eat
them), read, listen to rock music, watch indie movies and True Blood re-runs.
Or, in the worst case scenario, get beaten at every Wii game by a five year
old.

“I’ve been in and out of hospitals for the past ten months. I’ve had half my
liver removed and even though this time the doctors are very optimistic that
they’ve removed all of the tumours, they can’t be sure. In another three months
they want me here again for a check up. Right now I feel better than I’ve ever
felt. I know the damn thing is gone, at least for the moment. Despite that, I
can’t make any plans for the future, not yet. I need to go somewhere where
nobody knows me, where I can relax and maybe even forget about all this. Where
I can meet people who don’t think of me as the girl who lost her father and her
brother in a car accident, and who has cancer. I want to have fun, even if it’s
for a couple of months.”

When Stella decides to visit her estranged
cousin Lisa in Genoa, she has no idea Italy will give her a new reason to live.

Max

“Her gaze locked on a scene so beautiful, the picturesque beach paled in
comparison. A lifeguard emerged from the water, his orange trunks stuck to his
legs and water dripping all over him. He shook his head to get rid of some of
the water in his hair and Stella felt as if everything started developing in
slow motion – tiny drops of water slid from his neck down his broad chest and
muscular arms, along a weaving tattoo on his right shoulder, and continued
downwards towards his chest and washboard stomach, finally getting lost in the
waistband of his trunks. A part of another tattoo peeked over his trunks on his
left hip, the other part hidden under them. It was a total Baywatch moment.”

Their love is epic. But there are too
many things keeping them apart.

“How could you keep this from me, Lisa? If you had told me the first day I met
him, I would have avoided him like the plague. Nothing would have happened
between us.”

“I kept your secrets, too, Stella.”

Are Max and Stella strong enough to
fight not only for their love, but for their lives?

Even though this is a series each book can be read as a stand alone book.

Then

Gia had let Beppe into her life so easily, as
if it was the most natural thing in the world. She’d held him when he’d hurt so
badly he’d thought he might die; she’d talked him down when he’d been so angry
he’d considered doing something he’d regret for the rest of his life.

Gia had saved his life.

At least
oncehe
needed to be strong for her.

This right
now, this moment, was theirs. It belonged to them, not to abusive or dead
fathers, not to guilt, regret or sorrow, not to the past of the future.

But will their love
survive when tragedy separates them?

“I have to
go, Gia. I’m tired and I feel empty. I know you need me, but I have nothing
left to give you. I need to heal.”

“I miss you so much
it’s hard to breathe.”

Now

Beppe was
still Gia’s closest friend. But they’d never be anything more than that again.
Remembering what it felt like to have the person you love most in the world be
torn away from you still hurt. Gia was determined never to be put into that
position again.

There was never lack
of love, but can Beppe win Gia’s trust again?

Forever

“When I was
broken you gave me pieces of yourself and made me whole again.”

I am so excited to be participating in this Cover Reveal for Airicka's new book Finding Kia. I have loved all her books and I can't wait to read this one. But first let's get to know more about Airicka before I reveaql the cover.

Airicka
Phoenix is the best-selling author of The Touch Saga, Games of Fire and
Octavian's Undoing with short stories in Whispered Beginnings: A Clever Fiction
Anthology and Midnight Surrender Anthology. She also writes adult paranormal
& contemporary romance under her alter ego, Morgana
Phoenix.

“Maybe
you should avoid me tonight.”His arm slipped around my waist and I was drawn
into his chest. “If I only have this one night with you, the last thing I’m
going to do is stay away.”Kia Valentines had always accepted the fact
that she was a nerd, a nobody. It was a badge she wore with honor, until the
day she saved Claudia DeLorenzo’s life and lost herself.When offered the chance
to shed her identity for a single night, Kia never believed it would change her
life. It was one night. It meant nothing, or it shouldn't have. But that single
night turned out to be her undoing when she finds passion in the arms of the
one person she can never have.Adam Chaves was more than just a gorgeous face,
he made her laugh, but more importantly, when he looked at her, she felt like
the most beautiful girl on earth. But Adam has no idea that Kia was the girl
behind the mask and Kia has no intention of telling him. But a secret can only
be kept if no one else knows about it. Claudia knows and she wants something
Kia isn't willing to give in order to keep it.Will Kia succumb? And just how
far is Claudia willing to go to get what she wants?

What a GORGEOUS cover! Finding Kia release September 1, 2013 I can't wait to read it.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to Thank Airicka for letting me participate in her Cover Reveal.